I've been suffering from something lately. I went down to swim on Friday afternoon, 20 laps, 20 mins. After I got back upstairs to my house, I started sneezing and my nose kept running (no, it didn't run away.. but I don't know how else to explain this phenomenon). My nose was in this state for the following days. Yesterday (Tuesday), I thought of something. I decided to go for a swim again, same routine, but to reverse the effect. See, this is what a flu can do to a poor human bean's brain. Sadly, it didn't work. But the human bean never gives up. I started digging up flu medicine from the kitchen drawer and placed it on the table, ready to eat it right after dinner. But I think my germ got scared and decided to behave itself for the whole night. But of course, as I'm typing this, my germ seems to have grown some sense overnight so there's a tissue almost permenantly attached to my nose.

The interesting is that these days, I'm finding it very hard to keep violin practice to 1 hour (my constant quota for the past 7 years, but improved with less cheating eg. complaining I need a break (10 mins) every half an hour).
1. 15 mins -- Scales, arpeggios etc and finger/bowing exercises
2. 10 mins -- 2 Studies (1 prepared, 1 practice for quick study)
3. 10 mins -- School pieces
4. 10 mins -- Gypsy Rondo
5. 10 mins -- Bach Serabande
6. 40-45 mins -- 3 "bigger" works
Total = About 1h 40mins
Since now's still the holidays and I have nothing much better to do, such extravagent spending of time every day is still acceptable. But how am I going to keep everything to 1 hour next year? 1 hour would just be playing everything I need to practice once through.. which isn't really called practice then. One solution: alternate between 1,2,3,4,5, 6(1) and 1, 2, 6(2). Sigh..

Yesterday, there was rehearsal in church at night. First rehearsal is always the most slack of all. Not everyone knows what to do or what programme is after the other (though I got a shock when I glanced at the programme sheet. "violin duet -- lynn & jean".. don't even know what we're supposed to be playing). Didn't need to play chimes because only me, Rebecca, Jasmine, Samuel and Rui Quan turned up, unless each of us ran around the table and juggled more than 6 chimes each. So we just had to help choir and chat among ourselves. It was quite interesting. Recounting our holidays (for those who already went) and laughing about funny incidents.

Jean has been out early in the morning and back at around 8pm since we came back from our holiday. N.E.mation takes up so much time. They all flock to NTU where they trap themselves in a room with different "tents" assigned to their group. Inside their tents, they each sit around their tablet/desktop pc and do sketches of their animation/chat online/play/whatever. They're each given their own tablet or desktop thing with the stuff for drawing on the screen, and they're the administrator of the com, so they can download whatever they want. Jean says she drew over 1000 things already (I don't know what - it's a top secret). Apart from the high tech gadgets and meals, I think it's comparable to an air conditioned jail. Anyway, go vote http://www.nemation.sg/perspectives.aspx

byebyebye have violin lesson later